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More riverfront movers and shakers have seen a Twin Cities River Rats show than have visited the Carl Kroening Interpretive Center, and more than a third of them dined or drank at an establishment
Minneapolis city planners say they’re almost ready to start asking the general public if they got it right, or in some cases, to help choose which unprecedented public investment to pursue.
The City of Columbia Heights is planning for the future of the LaBelle Park area, and with help from Candace Amberg, a landscape architect with Brauer/WSB and Associates, has come up with two “conc
The Windom Park Neighborhood is set to receive nearly $400,000 in improvements, its allotment in Phase II of the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP).
Minneapolis city planners say they’re almost ready to start asking the general public if they got it right, or in some cases, to help choose which unprecedented public investment to pursue.
Minne, maybe the Twin Cities’ most lovable, seasonal work of public art has reappeared in Minneapolis.
My neighborhood is up in arms. It’s a well-mannered outrage but listening to folks steam, I can’t escape the conclusion that we’re mad at all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons.
Here at last an off leash dog park. Located under the Smith Avenue high bridge on land that belongs to Xcel Energy and was part of the high bridge plant. The park is not on the river but in between Shepard Road and the Condos and apartments on the upper landing.
Carnivals are fun but messy and very wasteful. Windom Carnival, known to be one of the largest carnivals in Minneapolis, plans to stop this by reducing its ecological footprint.Windom Park Carnival • Friday, June 1 • 5-8 p.m. • corner of Johnson and Lowrey in Northeast MinneapolisOrganizations that will be assisting with the effort include Eastside Food Co-op who will provide receptacles for the waste, Tapmpls.com, an initiative of the City of Minneapolis to promote the use of tap water versus bottled water, and the Minnesota Energy Renewable Society, which will provide solar panels to power a showmobile.Last year, the carnival generated between 20-25 large bags of garbage, much of which included pop cans, water bottles and food waste.“It’s our hope that of those 20 bags, most are recyclables and compostables. So, it will be a sound, useful piece of measurement of our success, Michelle Woster, carnival committee member and volunteer, said.“I’d say if this year we wind up with less than 15 bags of garbage, that would be a good thing. I also think just getting people talking about this topic, and educating them as we answer questions like where’s the bottled water? What happened to all the trash cans? Continue Reading
On May 2, the bench, slide, jungle gym and swings were removed without notice from “Monkey Island,” one of the two little parks on either side of Hendon Avenue at Branston Street in St.